e-Negotiation involves two or more agents multilaterally bargaining for mutual gain, using information technologies in a cooperative problem-solving (CPS) environment. Most of the existing work deals with the development of strategies for supporting negotiation activities in a pre-defined problem structure. In this paper, we focus on the information flow among different entities of e-Negotiatio...

Classical negotiation models are weak in supporting real-world business negotiations because these models often assume that the preference information of each negotiator is made public. Although parametric learning methods have been proposed for acquiring the preference information of negotiation opponents, these methods suffer from the strong assumptions about the specific utility function and...

Negotiation is an essential business activity for establishing trade relationships between partners (Yuan and Turel 2004). As the business environment becomes more dynamic in this global setting, negotiation between partners is required more often. Negotiation is the key decision-making approach used to reach consensus whenever partners cannot achieve their goals (Thompson 2000). Advanced techn...

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in automated e-business negotiations. The automation of negotiation requires a decision model to capture the negotiation knowledge of policymakers and negotiation experts so that the decision-making process can be carried out automatically. Current research on automated e-business negotiations has focused on defining low-level tactics (or nego...

Mobile banking is getting a lot of attention as a result of the fact that the majority of the world population has some kind of mobile device and the rate of acceptance of mobile banking is increasing. To stay ahead of competition banks should take this opportunity to re-engineer the traditional time consuming process of loan negotiation and introduce mobile loan negotiation. In this work we pr...

Auctions are a fundamental mechanism to automate negotiations in electronic commerce. We consider a class of multi-lateral negotiation situations, which requires negotiation on multiple attributes of a deal. These situations are typical for corporate procurement. Current auction implementations do not support these negotiations adequately. In the paper we propose multi-attribute auctions, an ec...

This paper is concerned with the formalization of a automated contracting mechanism that enables a society of cooperative resource allocation agents to negotiate rationally in a self-interested meta-society. Such environments induce agents to adopt diierent social behaviors according to the negotiation partner. This problem may be solved by taking an economic perspective in all the decisions, n...

With negotiation being an often difficult process involving complex problems, computer-based support has been employed in its various phases and tasks. This article provides a historical overview of software used to support negotiations, aid negotiators, and automate one or more negotiation activities. First, it presents several system classifications, including implemented models, system archi...

The note reports on the current status of an implementation of a rulebased negotiation mechanism in a model e-commerce multi-agent system. Here, we briefly describe the conceptual architecture of the system and its initial implementation utilizing JADE and JESS. A particular negotiation scenario involving English auctions performed in parallel is also discussed.

We present an architecture for multi-agent negotiation for implementing a distributed meeting scheduler. In the scheduling system, an agent is assigned to an user who plans private schedules and events. An agent negotiates with other agents about making an public schedule by referring user's private schedules and preferences. The multi-agent negotiation we proposed here facilitates reaching an ...